Get real path from Uri - DATA is deprecated in android Q

Question

I\'m successfully implementing a method for retrieving the real path of an image from gallery by the Uri returned from ACTION_PICK intent. Here\'s

Answer 1

This question came up for me too a week ago.

My solution was to create an InputStream from the URI and then, from this, create an OutputStream by copying the contents of the input stream.

Note: You could call this method using an asynchronous call because copying extremely large files could have some delays and you won't want to block your UI

@Nullable
public static String createCopyAndReturnRealPath(
       @NonNull Context context, @NonNull Uri uri) {
    final ContentResolver contentResolver = context.getContentResolver();
    if (contentResolver == null)
        return null;

    // Create file path inside app's data dir
    String filePath = context.getApplicationInfo().dataDir + File.separator
            + System.currentTimeMillis();

    File file = new File(filePath);
    try {
        InputStream inputStream = contentResolver.openInputStream(uri);
        if (inputStream == null)
            return null;

        OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
        byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        int len;
        while ((len = inputStream.read(buf)) > 0)
            outputStream.write(buf, 0, len);

        outputStream.close();
        inputStream.close();
    } catch (IOException ignore) {
        return null;
    }

    return file.getAbsolutePath();
}